Dell announced today it was chosen by the United States Navy Medical
Logistics Command and the United States Army Integrated Clinical Systems
PMO along with its partners BRIT Systems
and Acuo Technologies, to
implement Dell’s Unified
Clinical Archive (UCA) solution. This was a task order assigned as a
part of the Digital Imaging Network Picture Archiving Communications
System III (DIN-PACS III) contract. The award was made to the Brit
Systems team that included both Dell and Acuo. As a part of this $45
million task order, Dell and its partners will help the Army and Navy
share Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) images between
military bases and branches worldwide through an archive that will
simplify the access and sharing of medical images for 49 hospitals.

Under this contract, Dell and its partners will provide the Army and
Navy with an on-premise, vendor-neutral archiving system that will have
a very positive impact on the quality
of care1 for military
families. This solution will give medical providers electronic access to
patient imaging records in a timely and seamless manner that enables
better coordination of patient care regardless of where the patient’s
duty station might be and also addresses both healthcare and Department
of Defense (DOD) security and continuity of operations requirements.

Dell’s UCA solution enables hospitals to simplify the management and
sharing of medical images between disparate PACS used in radiology,
cardiology, neurosurgery, endoscopy, mammography, digital pathology and
a variety of other clinical specialties, and manage the proliferation of
imaging data in patient care. Both the on-premise, which will be used in
this case, and cloud-based UCA solutions address the cost and access
challenges of image data with a vendor-neutral archive, object-based
storage and services that provide seamless integration between the
leading PACS systems. Dell’s solution also sorts and stores images so
they can be readily available to clinicians and prioritized from those
more suitable for long-term retention.

Quotes:

“As mobile and diverse as the members of our nation’s military are and
with the costs of healthcare booming, the federal government has more to
gain from efficiency and reduced costs of healthcare than any other
organization in the world. With Deltek estimating DoD healthcare costs
to have increased from $18 billion in 2001 to $40 billion today and the
VA’s up from $20 billion to $40 billion in that time, our military needs
more modern and innovative healthcare solutions to enable better and
more flexible care,” said Troy West, vice president and general
manager, Dell Federal. “This is a perfect example of the broad
cross-section of solutions we offer to our government and military
customers and with the continued organic and inorganic expansion of our
services and solutions offering, we’ll continue to find ways to better
serve these important customers.”

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